The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-28

wound. 1t is feared the trouble Is not over.
| AT Sumteryille Saturday some of the
prisoners confined in the Jail attempted to
! escape, but were fOiled by the appearance
of Sheriff Chapman and Deputy Howell. A
negro boy, James Mack, was confined for
some minor oifense and was released. Some
OF the prisoners made arrangements with
him 10 get some implement by which they
could break their bars. and he secured
crOwGar and carried it to the jail. BY the
| use Of 1t they succeeded in breaking the iron
hinges of the main door.
W. E. Allen a. Co, of Mcintosh, Fla,
writes as follows: Eve have a very rich
soil here and fine timber, and our vegetable
growth is good One of our vegetable
growers has received $5G5 from am acre and
a third of vegetables He had less than an
acre of tomatoes and had about one-third of
an acre in 'Culles' He got Sl55 for what
cukes he shipped and $40 for his tomatoes,
and did not use any manureS or fertilizers
of any kind He shipped over 400 crates Of
tomatoes from this small patch of ground"
The gambler Fcibcr, of Orlando, has once
more gotten himself into trouble by repre-
sentng himself as a United States Marshal
and attempting to blackmail keeper of a
house of ill-fame on the outskirts of the city.
He accused the woman of selling beer with
out license and offered to keep still if she
would pay him 5000 Not being able TO get
that sum he finally agreed to accept S. but
the woman was firm and would pay him
nothing. He brought in the name of a GER
tain citizen during his REMARKS and the fact
coming to the gentleman's ears, he pro-
ceeded to black FeIber's eye i'll a scientinc
style
The dulness of Francis was somewhat re-
lieved by the antics of a crazy negro on
Sunday and Monday morning On Sunday
he took possession of the church, and on
being turned out announced that he had
been sent by God to preach there Early
Monday morning the whole town was
aroused by his yells, singing, preaching and
cursing, which he varied by smashing the
household effects of negro with whom he
was an unwelcome guest By little strategy
he was caught, tied securely, and carted Off
to Palatla, where he was afterward re-
leased because no warrant had been issued
for him.
Eustis Lake Region: Col. Lanier, of
Laniers Landing, tells remarkable story
about oranges. A few years since he had
number of orange trees which blossOmed i'll
September In due time the fruit began to
mature, and i'll January was about half
grown. A sharp little freeze came and
about twO-thirds of the fruit fell off. The
fruit which remained assumed a yellow
color, and looked like ripe oranges of a
small growth. When the warm spring days
came the fruit turned green, and began to
grow, and in June was fully ripe and ma
tured, of a beautiful color and delicious
flavor, but entirely without seeds.
a man who is surely a very remarkable
case has been at Cone for some time. He
looks after No ! faithfully to the neglect of
his family; wears goggles, which embellish
his manly face, and drives black stallion.
One day this week he stopped at the house
of one neighbor just in time to get his horse
well fed, and then he drove to another
neighbours and took breakfast and dinner.
| He has been known to camp on good place
| all day and night, and, like his horse, does
not like to move a day or two since he
| charged a cOlored labOrer of the neighbOr-
hood with embezzlement Of So or 81 from
| him, and when the case was called and in
vestigated, the colored man proved that the
man was really in debt to him, and the
court put the costs on the mysterious man,
| in all about S.
The saloon-keepers of jacksonville are
now getting up petition to present to the
! Mayor III their own interests. 1t asserts
that aside from liquors, they offer for sale
soda water, lemonade, apollinaris and other
mineral waters In complying with the
Mayors commands and closing on Sundays
they are absolutely excluded from any OPP
| portunitv to VCnd such refreshments, which
| is not tie case with the lemonade and soda
water stands. This, aside from the various
| news depots and book stores, which contnu-
! ously keep their doors aiar on the alert for
| trade, is a violation of the Sunday law, and
discriminates SO pointedly against a class of
citizens that they deem it proper to call at
tenticn to it. They assume that the Mayor
| proposes to administer the law impartially
and ask that they be allowed to sell mineral
waters, lemonade and other light drinks on
| Sunday the same as others,
The facilities for getting to the temporary
county seat of Bloomfield from this side of
the lakes will not be 50 bad after all The
! fine little side-wheel steamer A. j. Lane,
belonging to the Florida Southern Railroad
| Company, will run from Eustis to Bloom
field and other landings on Lake Harris
| twice week. Wednesdays and SATURDAYS,
and possibly oftcncr. On it passengers can
60 to Lane Park by rail, and from there take
the little side wheel steamer Dispatch for
| Bloomfield and landings in that vicinity
| This is daily trip. 1t seems to bea general
| impression that the first election of the peo-
Pile for the permanent county seat will be
| the latter part of October, and that the first
| election will not decide the result; that there
| will be so many aSpirantS on the first vote
that no one town will get a majority of all
the registered votes Anyhow, the issue
will unquestionably narrow down, before il
| is decided TO Eustis and Leesburg That il
the almost universal view, and there is nc
other town i'll the race.
Mr. Cason, living about ten miles north
| of Brooksville, was out in the pine wood
near his house, on July 1, looking about,
when he sat down on a log to rest. After
sitting awhile he heard rustliug among
the leaves behind him; looking around, he
was Mortified to see a rattlesnake within
| four feet of him, cooled ready to strike.
Mr.. Cason had brought his revolver with
him and, drawing it, lie opened fire upon
| HIM AT the first shot the snake sprang nj
him, but he deXtrously stepped TO one side,
| allowing il to pass and drop upon the log,
about one third of its length passing over
| slightly wounded-enough to render it flu
rious II began TO gather itself together
for another attack when well-aimcd shot
| tool, effect in the head, which put a stop tn
the battle. The monster measured seven
feet nine inches in length, was as large
around as Il stovepipo and had fourteen rat
ties and button.
An unusual spectacle was witnessed re,
Gently IN one of Jacksonvilles suburbs. As
| "A lady bent on business was hnrtYing into
town, q Young snake emerged from Gen.
Spinucr's yard leisllrcly gDidel ahead of her.
At first she thought to spare him, hut as he
was 'movin' SO slow" she gently poked
him with her umbrella, requesting him to
accelerate his motions" To her
surprise the reptile resented the in
dignity and quickly coiling
sprang yiciously at tho Offending